The silent world of Reinaldo Arenas’s novels

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  • Jana Waldnerová Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1515/aa-2018-0010

Abstract

The paper focuses on the life and poetics of Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas, an important representative of Cuban gay literature, who, due to his sexual orientation and eventual opposition to the Revolution, was silenced by the Cuban government and exposed to continual threats. His novels, which depict the hardship of and discrimination against ordinary people and gay members of Cuban society (for example Old Rosa and Farewell to the Sea), reveal also signs of the deep trauma that the writer suffered and its impact on his writing.

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Published

2019-02-13

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